Recent content by Pete-B

I drive an 08 Accord estate 2.2 i-dtec and driving home from work on Sunday evening and the car decides to be a bit noisier and it felt like it wanted to be a in a lower gear than I was using. I nursed the car the rest of the 40 miles home, it going between louder than normal and normal, no...

Occasionally there's quite a bit of smoke in round the engine bay, doesn't smell like diesel and isn't really that offensive smelling either. Mostly happens when it's wet out but definitely isn't steam. It can be weeks between it happening and it doesn't seem to matter whether it's long or short...

Cheers Fahad, I'm in Northern Ireland so not handy, but thanks for the offer. Brian I'd thought of that after posting but was away from the house. Thankfully disconnecting the battery for a while reset everything, so all good again. Now the only worry with the car is whether the manifold is...

Cheers, it could've got that low but now there's enough to start the engine from cold. Is there any home odb software, I've vauxhall and bmw stuff but nowt for honda

Sorry if this has been answered before but I can't it if it has. I've an 8th gen tourer and the other day the lights were left on to the point that the battery was pretty much drained. Anyhow, I charged the battery yesterday and checked the car started and it started no problem, but there now...

Cheers guys, although there was more oil than I expected it was relatively clean (certainly cleaner than any petrol engine I've done) When I got the car the dealer gave me the oil for the change cos I said I'd rather do it myself. The oil was Motaquip 0w30 fully synthetic, but on checking...

Cheers, figured that was the case, 6 ltrs just made it to the max level

Just looking someone to confirm, I did an oil change last night on my 2.2 i-DTEC. The instructions on line seem to be to refill with 5.5 ltrs and top up to 6 ltrs if it is required. The query is when draining at the sump plug I took over 7 ltrs out, so should I have replaced 7 ltrs or is 6...